Jeremias 31:19
For after thou didst convert me, I did penance: and after thou didst shew unto me, I struck my thigh: I am confounded and ashamed, because I have borne the reproach of my youth.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Postquam enim convertisti me, egi pœnitentiam : et postquam ostendisti mihi, percussi femur meum. Confusus sum, et erubui, quoniam sustinui opprobrium adolescentiæ meæ.
- Septuagint (Swete) shown from Jeremias 38:19
- ὅτι ὕστερον αἰχμαλωσίας μου μετενόησα, καὶ ὕστερον τοῦ γνῶναί με ἐστέναξα ἐφ᾽ ἡμέρας αἰσχύνης, καὶ ὑπέδειξά σοι ὅτι ἔλαβον ὀνειδισμὸν ἐκ νεότητός μου.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- כִּֽי אַחֲרֵ֤י שׁוּבִי֙ נִחַ֔מְתִּי וְאַֽחֲרֵי֙ הִוָּ֣דְעִ֔י סָפַ֖קְתִּי עַל יָרֵ֑ךְ בֹּ֚שְׁתִּי וְגַם נִכְלַ֔מְתִּי כִּ֥י נָשָׂ֖אתִי חֶרְפַּ֥ת נְעוּרָֽי
Haydock's commentary
Thigh, through grief. Femur mœrenti plangere dextra. (Ovid, Metam. xi.)
Cyrus struck his thigh, mounted his horse, and went to attend the funeral of Abradates. (Xenophon vii.)
So did Achilles for Patroclus. (Homer, Iliad xvi.)
Youth, being seduced by Jeroboam.
From Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary, 1859, in the transcription made by Todd Easton and kept online by John Paul Wohlschied at johnblood.gitlab.io/haydock.